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Opposition to the tax appears to be gaining momentum. A coalition of plastic surgeons and medical trade groups have sent letters to Congress and set up a website called stopcosmetictax.org, where people are urged to sign petitions and contact their Senators. (See the 10 worst fast-food meals...
...Tuvalu’s representative to the climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen, placed the blame squarely at the Senate’s feet. “It is an irony of the modern world that the fate of the world is being determined by some senators in the U.S. Congress,” Fry lamented...
...states represented by the 45 senators who have already committed to supporting climate-change legislation almost certainly represent more than half the nation’s population, given that opponents of the legislation come disproportionately from small states. America, then, is not dooming Tuvalu. Its upper house of Congress...
...formal constitution, meaning that gradually weakening the upper house was far more plausible in those nations than in the United States. Indeed, formally weakening the Senate would require constitutional amendment, just the same as abolishing the Senate would. If our aim is to allow majority rule in Congress, it makes more sense to kill the Senate in one blow than to use the same maneuver to merely weaken...
...sure, changes as large as the abolition of a branch of Congress should not be taken lightly. However, an institution like the U.S. Senate whose primary effect is to prevent the federal government from accomplishing anything of significance has clearly overstayed its welcome. If the citizens of the United States care about maintaining a democracy in any sense of the term, it is high time to abolish the Senate...